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...face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure...
...foreign quarter to "do her bit." She was Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and wife of Edward William Bok, famed immigrant-publicist. Her problem was obvious. Philadelphia's foreign quarter was and is like any other city's-crowded, ingrown, hostile to the U. S. culture enveloping it, which it cannot understand. Mrs. Bok tried the teaching of useful trades, U. S. theories of liberty and government, the English language. She was met with forced interest, with acquiescence veiling suspicion. At length she turned to a universal language-music. She arranged...
...song itself was written as a toast to Harvard, not "to glorify the joys of drinking". It happens, so ingrown are the bad habits of Americans, that at many a banquet toasts are still made and drunk, albeit necessarily in water or lemonade. It is quite likely that "Johnny Harvard" was sung with glasses in hand. Take away the wine from the banquet and the glasses from the song and the two cases are practically parellel-except that singing a toast in public is more attractive to the ear than speaking a toast in public...
...itself as far as the plot goes but also forming part of "the Lawrie Saga"- a literary sextet the composition of which has occupied Mr. Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities of children- Stephen, his youthful grandson, by retiring into his own entirely...
...institutions have not, and should not have equal advantages with native Harvard College men. It is true that some of the graduates come here from other nearby college or universities which regard Harvard as a hated rival, and that these men can not in a few months overcome an ingrown prejudice of four years. But these men are in the minority. It is true that the graduates are obviously accorded second or third consideration in some things, such as ticket allotments. Here however, we may argue that this consideration is an effect--or, we may argue that...